PERSONAL MONEY ALLOWANCE
SEC. 304. (a) Officers entitled to receive basic pay shall, while serving in the grade of lieutenant general, vice admiral, or in an equivalent grade or rank, in addition to any other pay or allowance authorized by this Act, be entitled to receive a personal money allowance of $500 per annum.
(b) Officers entitled to receive basic pay shall, while serving in the grade of general, admiral, or in an equivalent grade or rank, in addition to any other pay or allowance authorized by this Act, be entitled to receive a personal money allowance of $2,200 per annum.
(C) Officers entitled to receive basic pay shall, while serving as the Chief of Staff of the Army, as the Chief of Naval Operations, as the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, as the Commandant of the Marine Corps, or as the Commandant of the Coast Guard, in lieu of any other personal money allowance authorized by this section, but in addition to any other pay or allowance authorized by this Act, be entitled to receive a personal money allowance of $4,000 per annum.
TITLE IV-PROVISIONS RELATING TO RETIREMENT, RETIREMENT PAY, SEPARATION, AND SEVERANCE PAY FOR PHYSICAL DISABILITY
ESTABLISHMENT OF A TEMPORARY DISABILITY RETIRED LIST
SEC. 401. (a) Any member of the uniformed services found to be unfit to perform the duties of his office, rank, grade, or rating by reason of physical disability and who otherwise qualifies as hereinafter provided may be retired or separated subject to the provisions of this title.
(b) The Secretary concerned shall establish for his uniformed service a temporary disability retired list, upon which shall be placed the names of all members of his service entitled to such placement pursuant to the provisions of this title. Such list shall be published annually in the official register or other official publication of the service concerned.
TEMPORARY DISABILITY RETIREMENT, PHYSICAL DISABILITY RETIREMENT, AND DISABILITY RETIREMENT PAY
SEC. 402. (a) Upon a determination by the Secretary concerned (1) that a member of a Regular component of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay, or a member of a Reserve component of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay who has been called or ordered to extended active duty for a period in excess of thirty days, is unfit to perform the duties of his office, rank, grade, or rating, by reason of physical disability incurred while entitled to receive basic pay; (2) that such disability is not due to the intentional misconduct or willful neglect of such member and that such disability was not incurred during a period of unauthorized absence of such member; (3) that such disability is 30 per centum or more in accordance with the standard schedule of rating disabilities in current use by the Veterans' Administration; (4) that such disability was the proximate result of the performance of active duty; and (5) that accepted medical principles indicate that such disability may be of a permanent nature, the name of such member shall be placed upon the temporary disability retired list of his service by the Secretary concerned and such member shall be entitled to receive disability retirement pay as prescribed in subsection (d) of this section: Provided, That if condition (5) above is met by a finding that such disability is of a permanent nature, such member may be retired by the Secretary concerned and, upon retirement, shall be entitled to receive disability retirement pay as prescribed in subsection (d) of this section: Provided further, That if condition (3) above is not met because the disability is determined to be less than 30 per centum, the member concerned shall not be eligible for any disability retirement provided in this section, but may be separated for physical disability from the service concerned and upon separation shall be entitled to receive disability severance pay as prescribed in section 403 of this title: Provided further, That any disability shown to have been incurred in line of duty during a period of active service in time of war or national emergency shall be considered to be the proximate result of the performance of active duty.
(b) Upon a determination by the Secretary concerned (1) that a member of a Regular component of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay, or a member of a Reserve component of the uniformed services entitled to receive basic pay who has been called or ordered to extended active duty for a period in excess of thirty days, is unfit to perform the duties of his office, rank, grade, or rating, by reason of physical disability incurred while entitled to receive basic pay; (2) that such disability is not due to the intentional misconduct or willful neglect of such member and that such disability was not incurred during a period of unauthorized absence of such member; (3) that such disability is 30 per centum or more in accordance with the standard schedule of rating disabilities in current use by the Veterans'Administration; (4) that such member has completed at least eight years of active service as defined in section 412 of this title; and (5) that accepted medical principles indicate that such disability may be of a permanent nature, the name of such member shall be placed upon the temporary disability retired list of his service by the Secretary concerned and such members shall be entitled to receive disability retirement pay as prescribed in subsection (d) of this section: Provided, That if condition (5) above is met by a finding that such disability is of a permanent nature, such member may be retired by the Secretary concerned and, upon retirement, shall be entitled to receive disability retirement pay as prescribed in subsection (d) of this section: Provided further, That if condition (3) above is not met because the disability is determined to be less than 30 per centum, the member concerned shall not be eligible for any disability retirement provided in this section, but may be separated for physical disability from the service concerned and upon separation shall be entitled to receive disability severance pay as prescribed in section 403 of this title: And provided further, That regardless of the percentage of disability determined to have been incurred, if condition (4) above is not met because the member concerned has completed less than eight years of active service as defined in section 412 of this title at the time he would otherwise have been retired pursuant to this subsection, the member concerned shall not be eligible for any disability retirement provided in this section, but may be separated for physical disability from the service concerned and upon separation shall be entitled to receive disability severance pay as prescribed in section 403 of this title.
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